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A 47-story skyscraper in Spain is nearly complete, but builders still have one major task ahead of them - building an elevator.

Though anyone would assume a building as tall as the InTempo skyscraper would have an elevator, that assumption would be incorrect. Wishing to be a beacon of hope in the troubled Spanish economy, the original plans for the building were rushed through and approved quickly.

The Office of Morelos confirmed the arrest of a 16-year-old Alexis identified as “N”, who along with two adults, prepared and carried out the kidnapping of another minor on the 5th of August and demanded a ransom of 300 000 pesos.
The victim had been kidnapped on August 5th and two days later the family had agreed to the payment of the ransom. The child’s mother had notified the police, who located the child kidnapped and the kidnappers and they were led handcuffed through a street in Cuernavaca.

Due to the reforms to the juvenile justice law, the child may be punished nine years in prison, because it is an aggravated felony and could receive the maximum sentence of the Court of Justice for Adolescents Unit (TUJA).
Previously the law on the subject established a maximum sentence of five years for these children, but now he could be sentenced to nine years, unlike his accomplices who will be punished to about 40 years in prison.
Alexis N. 16, admitted having participated in the kidnapping.
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A woman being transported to a Las Vegas jail in a police van reportedly performed oral sex on a man also in the van.

According to accounts from both the corrections officer and another inmate in the back of the van, Carlisa Brookins, 22, and Alexis Garcia, 21, were sitting across from each other, both in constraints, when Brookins managed to lean forward into Garcia’s lap.

A new type of “piranha,” armed with scissors and with a hunger for hair has appeared in Venezuela and is going after the locks of local women with the aim of selling them for up to 3,000 bolivars ($476).

Amid the unease that the situation has sparked in the western city of Maracaibo, municipal police chief Alejandro Querales announced the launching of a “special operation” to capture the criminals.

During a sparsely attended, Tea Party-sponsored, “Stop Amnesty” rally against immigration reform on Monday, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) launched into a vicious tirade against individuals from Latin America, claiming that the population gets more violent as one moves further south in Latin America.

He made the anti-immigration case that individuals from a “violent civilization” would create a more violent environment for individuals living in a “less-violent civilization.” His argument comes at a time when some House Republicans are softening their stance to providing a pathway to legal status for the millions of undocumented immigrants. About 73 percent of undocumented individuals in the United States are from Latin America.

The Malaysian Court of Appeals today in Bangkok upheld the death sentence of death by hanging for the three Mexican brothers Gonzalez Villarreal, convicted two years ago for a drug trafficking offense.

The three judges of the court rejected the appeal of the brothers Luis Alfonso, Simon and Jose Regino, who are left to the last appeal to the Federal Court were they will again seek a royal pardon to escape capital punishment.

“Unfortunately, they have rejected their request, the sooner we will present an appeal to the Federal Court,” he said by phone the lawyer for the brothers, Kitson Foong.

The Mexicans were arrested on March 4, 2008 in a raid conducted by the Malaysian Police in the city of Johor, next to a Malaysian and one Singaporean citizen was also sentenced to death.

The lawyer failed to convince the court that the brothers only took care of the cleaning and they were arrested on the outside of the ship where the officers found 29 kilograms of methamphetamine, one stash valued at $ 15 million.

However, the prosecutor argued that drug remains were found on the clothes and hands of the accused.

The three brothers, originally from the state of Sinaloa, left the courtroom crestfallen in Kuala Lumpur after hearing the verdict.

One way to escape the death penalty with Malaysian justice is to replace drug smuggling charges for possession of narcotics. Then they commute the penalty for a long stay in jail and apply punishment spanking.

The Mexican attorney Villarreal Gonzalez also claims that a third of the methamphetamine disappeared while being guarded by the police, which should mean, in your opinion, the cancellation of the trial for a violation of the fundamental rights of its clients.

Mexican National Anthropology and History Institute, or INAH, experts will reconstruct the face of an individual who lived some 700 years ago from pre-Columbian skeletal remains, officials said.

The skeleton was recovered 35 years ago in the western Mexican state of Michoacan and belonged to the elite of the western culture, according to studies made by the INAH and the National Autonomous University of Mexico, or UNAM.

Production has started on a vehicle that will be used exclusively in New York City’s taxi fleet, with $200 million invested in developing the platform, the Mexican unit of Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Company said.

The Nissan NV200 was selected by the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission, or TLC, “as the city’s exclusive taxi” and is being hailed as the “Taxi of Tomorrow,” Nissan Mexicana said.